Marley Monette's life was held together by duct tape and string. Since her father's death when she was eight, things have been tough. Her mom became addicted to heroin and lost her job, and then she became a prostitute. Marley and her best friends, Riot and Graveyard, were the school outcasts. But Marley was okay with it. As long as she had cigarettes and weed, she didn't care.
And then one day, things changed. There was a story about a possible outbreak of diseases issued in Boston and the local areas. Marley, Riot, and Graveyard research the diseases and find the link to an article dating back over ten years to a discovery of an ancient parasite. The location of the lab studying it was just outside of their hometown. They decided to check the place out and find it in disarray.
They met Max Force, and from there, things go down hill. They're on the run. That lab is doing terrible things and Max is living proof of it. The government laughs in their face. The U.N. puts a warrant out for their arrest. Marley, Max, Riot, and Graveyard are ripped from the life they know and forced into the lives of being fugitives. Then Alpha Corps catches up to them...and what they have in store for Marley is something so terrible, so evil, that Marley would rather die...
Corporations own your contract based on how useful your Gift is and how valuble that makes you. Humans born without a Gift are refused Citizenship and there are many Corporations that are working towards eliminating the rights those 'Duds' retain, turning them into expendable chattel. The Military has sent Olivia and four other soldiers undercover at the University for Wanted Gifts, a prestigeous private University in the hopes that these soldiers will return with information that the Military can use to regain control of all the Corporations. But they are also using this chance to exerpiment on these undercover soldiers to see how prototypes work under real life conditions. Can Olivia survive the machinations of those supposed to watch her back, or is this a situation where the devil you know is worse than the one you don't?